Lynching in a sentence

But the fact so many Americans were murdered through lynching, the fact it was used to as a terror tactic to promote an ideology of hatred, and the fact no federal anti-lynching law exists makes the president’s use of the word inappropriate at best.

Mob lynching is a reality and has become a “new normal”, the CPI said Thursday, hitting out at RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for his comments that the word “lynching” was “alien” to the Indian tradition.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said though the mob lynching incident had deeply pained him and he wishes the guilty to be punished, it is entirely wrong on the Opposition's part to call the state 'a hub of lynching'.

E.M. Beck, who studied lynching for 30 years and has written books on the subject, said the memorial might actually understate the scope of lynching even though it lists thousands of victims.

Should it become law it would federally criminalize lynching, attempts to lynch and lynching conspiracies.

Tuskegee University keeps a record of lynching victims, and the book “At The Hands of Persons Unknown: Lynching of Black America” is an authoritative work on the terrorist murders of Black people.

A decades-long fight for a federal anti-lynching law never succeeded.

Among its projects, EJI places memorials for victims of lynching in the United States.

Born on the city’s South Side, was 19 when he went to the open-casket funeral of Emmett Till, a Black teenage lynching victim.

In the first book, Winslow examined lynching as a phenomenon in America, using the stories of Cullen as a local example.

Mohan, who reached his paternal home in SaharsaтАЩs Pachgachhia, said both Krishnaiah and his family suffered because of the lynching incident.

On Monday, Carter’s grieving family called for the Justice Department to step in and take over the investigation as they described his death as a “murder” and “lynching”.

She felt a need to be part of the justice system, she said—a system that failed her family after the 1939 lynching of her great-grandfather, Jesse Lee Bond.

They claimed that Kirk called for the 'lynching of trans people' but have since deleted their tweet claiming this.

You see that with regard to the Black lynchings, and in the southwest people were lynching Mexicans at the same time, for different reasons.

But as soon as you stepped out of the stipulated boundaries of the community, the smiley faces of your fellow humans could turn into the faces of terrifying perpetrators of lynching.

Mainstream media outfits published articles equating Neely’s death with lynching.

Meanwhile, Hindu right-wing organisations such as the Bajrang Dal and the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha have been threatening to launch protests if those arrested for the alleged lynching are not freed soon.

Not gone unnoticed, too, is that Donalds is married to a white woman, something that would have led to his lynching during Jim Crow.

Sellier said auteur veneration underpinned a controversial petition that was published on Christmas Day in the right-wing daily Le Figaro, denouncing a “lynching of Depardieu”, signed by dozens of friends and colleagues of the actor.